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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
It wouldn't make it impossible but it would make it more difficult, and that would dramatically decrease the number of these incidents. Literally all of the data from countries where guns have been banned demonstrates this. The only real difference in America is how deeply baked into the constitution etc. these issues are, and how many guns are already "out there", however, it would still mnake several practical differences.
Number one being... if someone currently sees someone walking down the street with a high powered AR, they don't bat an eyelid. If these weapons were banned - most would call the police and inform them that someone is walking around heavily armed. Those few minutes can make a huge difference.
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Not true at all. Rifles and AR-15's are very rarely used in crimes. Because it's very difficult to conceal them.
If someone wants to reduce gun crime
dramatically, we'd need to ban all semi-automatics and handguns... that's most guns, so we might as well talk about a total ban.
But again, this isn't even accounting for the amount of crimes that gun ownership has either prevented or reduced from being far worse. If you look year-by-year, gun crime has dropped quite significantly... the stats have improved, but the media uses fudgy math or funky statistics to make it seem as if it's worse than it is or as if crime has improved significantly... except that that's not the case at all.